santacruz
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Everything posted by santacruz
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The build quality of both stihl and husky seems to have gone downhill, but husky more so. I have done around 500hrs on my 261 now and its been acceptable.
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the 261 is a bit of a plodder and the 346 is a ripper. I bought the 261 because its reliable, unfortunately you cant say that about the husky.
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I find it takes chunks out of my pants when my saw is clipped in to my harness.
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Depends what you want it for MB tracs work well on good sites. They lack the clearance and tyre size of a county or similar for climbing steep rocky/stumpy ground.
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Bigger nose better boring and cutting speed but more risk of kickback
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I dont think its ilegal to use one on the ground. Its just the NPTC that say you shouldnt. They are handy little saws for all jobs especially bashing thorns and other fiddly stuff.
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Removing the plug is a pain. Bits collect in the shielding plastic, then fall down the hole when you remove the plug. The only way to stop it is to blow it out with the air line before removal. Pants.
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Remember roundwood is also sold by the meter, but is a measure of solid wood. So when cut and split will make around 2 cubes of loose stacked firewood. Dry roundwood for firewood is always sold by volume. As a meter of solid green wood is very roughly around a ton except for species such as oak or beech then currently you pay £40-45 per meter. So on a volume by volume basis you are paying around £73 per ton so an extra £30 because its already seasoned. I dont understand why it comes in a container. How do you get roundwood into and then out of a container without tipping it. Even the telehandler wont reach to the back of a 40ft container, and it certainly wouldnt lift one end to tip it.
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Vredstein tyres are very good. Brilliant in the wet and last. All winter/snow tyres will make your van use more diesel.
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Harvester head log processing convertion (pretty cool toy)
santacruz replied to rowan lee's topic in Video forum
Good idea. Only trouble is harvesters run 404 chain and will turn most of your expensive firewood into sawdust and fire said sawdust all over your yard. -
I should have patented the fencing idea. Started doing it last year. Using new fencing it costs about £3 for each net. Only downside is that they take up a lot of space when empty. I tried the cube nets last year, they are a faf to fill tidy enough to get them to stack, but mine were UV stable ones so they did last, and they do look nice.
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Voluntary VAT registered, is it worth it?
santacruz replied to 18 stoner's topic in Business Management
Your costs go down on things like diesel and tools, but your cost to private customers go up. Its win win if every one you work for is VAT registered, as they can claim the VAT they pay you back. As for firewood the rate on domestic fuel is 5% so if you go VAT the price increase to your customers wont be horrendous. -
I use bottle jacks regularly for edge trees. It will shift a tree a wedge wont even touch. It will send over trees so back weighted that when youve put your ally wedge in and finished the cut the wood above and below the wedge squashes and the tree sits back anyway. I always have one in the car for such ocasions. If you can wedge it if not jack it over.
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The calorific value of wood doesnt vary by species as it is all made of the same stuff lignin cellulose and hemicellulose in roughly the same quantities.
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IMO uprated springs are pointless, at the end of the day its still a 3.5t vehicle. They also stop the axle articulating on rough ground, you often find yourself with one wheel off the ground when manouvering just because the axle wont dip into a pothole. One wheel off the ground plus chipper on the back = stuck.
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Chances are either Cutters are sharper on one side than the other Cutters are shorter on one side than the other Rakers are lower on one side than the other the chain is trying to cut like a banana but the machine wont let it.
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Descending on a munters will rapidly wear your rope
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I deliver them in my little panel van. Fork them in, then at the customers empty the top few logs, grab them by the handles and drag them out.
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260 all the way. Remember that 325 chain on the smaller saw will turn less of your firewood into sawdust than the 3/8s on bigger saws. Keep it razor sharp and it will rip. A well maintained 260 will easily do 2000hrs of hard graft.
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Never buy a stihl saw with a 4 in the middle of its name. The 460 is more powerfull and weighs the same as the 441. Its all about power to weight.
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You can carry goods from a piece of land that you own to another piece of land that you own. You can also carry goods such as wood back to your yard on red if the vehicle was used on site to perform an essential task. For example because your tractor was used to load the trailer then using red to haul that trailer back to your yard is ok. If the trailer was without loader, and was loaded by another machine, then red is no, as that is simple haulage.
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Can anyone tell me the part no for a 325 star sprocket to fit my 341. Any help much appreciated.
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CS39 - what exactly does it allow you to do?
santacruz replied to mistahbenn's topic in Climbers talk
nptc cs units are not a legal requirement, they are just evidence that you have reached a certain level of competancy. If you start dismantling and only have 39 the police arent going to turn up and lock you up. I think people get too hung up on how many units they have or should have, which are only there so that in the event of an accident an employer can say look he had cs whatever so he should have known better. -
The artic that delivers to me brings 25t. If its green hardwood I get about 50m3 if its green softwood then I get nearly 60m3. Hope that helps
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skidded beech doesnt pick up that much dirt as the bark is smooth. thinning with the tractor and winch is a difficult skill to master, but this sounds like a good job to get started.
